On May 10, 2023, a technical workshop was held by Thomas Nordin, chief technician, and Erik Rask, technician and conservator for the students of the international curator program at Stockholm University.
Supervisor Stockholm University: Nicole Rochelle Boode, Program Coordinator
Supervisors Magasin III: Thomas Nordin, Chief Technician, and Erik Rask, Technician/Conservator
A discussion concerning human rights during wartime; with the participation of Ohad Amar, Executive Director of Kav La’oved; Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, Director of the Community and Planning department at Bimkom; and artists Saher Miari and Gaston Zvi Ickowicz.
Ohad Amar, residing in Jaffa, Amar is a human rights lawyer and social activist committed to advancing social rights. Amar serves as the Executive Director of Kav La’oved, a non-profit organization which aims to uphold full and equal labor rights for all workers in the Israeli labor market regardless of religion, nationality, gender, or legal status. The organization advocates on behalf of the most marginalized workers, namely low-income Israeli citizens, refugees and asylum-seekers, Palestinians, and migrant workers, through grassroots individual assistance efforts as well as policy and legal advocacy to promote systemic change.
Alon Cohen-Lifshitz is an architect and director of the planning and community department at Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights. For the last 20 years, Cohen-Lifshitz has been leading Bimkom activities in the West Bank while assisting hundreds of communities, villages and towns in their struggle against discriminatory Israeli planning policies. Bimkom is an Israeli non-profit organization formed in 1999 by a group of planners and architects, in order to strengthen democracy and human rights in the field of planning. Spatial planning plays a crucial role in determining the quality of our life and environment, as well as the prospects for socio-economic development and well-being of individuals and communities alike. Cohen-Lifshitz holds an M.A. in International Community Development from the Hebrew University and a B.Arch from Bezalael Academy for Art and Design.
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz graduated from Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem, and the Continuing Education Unit in the Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He is a photography lecturer at Bezalel and at the Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv. Through photography and video, his works focus on the Israeli-Palestinian landscape and the interaction between man and landscape in a socio-political context. Ickowicz’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
Saher Miari acquired his BFA from the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College, and his MFA from the University of Haifa. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha, and initiates artistic projects in Arab communities in the north of Israel. Miari’s work focuses on issues that concern him as an artist-builder, such as home and masonry, construction and destruction, dismantling and assembly, wandering and migration, interior and exterior, as well as harsh working conditions referred to as “black labor.” His works reflect the identity and complexity of the Palestinian Arab society living in Israel, as well as his own identity. Through his art he expresses his worldview and criticizes the local reality, aspiring to change and build a new reality based on a stable and reliable foundation. Miari’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel.
Magasin III Jaffa Books will host the artist Meital Katz Minerbo to launch her new artist book- The Handbook of Human Botany.
A hand-made artist’s book created by the artist, reflecting the complexity of today’s social fabric. The purpose of the book is to generate alternative narratives to those of classification, group separation and division. By asking two questions: What is your Nature? and Where is your Garden? the Handbook invites the readers to collect data and fill the pages with their own writing, drawing or any other unique form of expression. Various answers to the questions will enable possible links and dynamic connections forming a fluid conception of identification, classification, mapping, and social groups.
Magasin III Jaffa Books will host the artist sheer Klein to launch her new artist book- Between Walls.
In this independently published book, complex experiences are described by drawings and poems through a few words or even a single line.
Small paintings will be offered for sale at the launch event.
During the fall of 2023, three works on paper by Fatima Moallim are presented in the reference library of Magasin III. On September 27, Moallim created the performance work Markeringar in the Magasin III library, which resulted in a work directly on the wall. The site-specific work has the three drawings by Moallim in the Magasin III collection as its point of departure. The three works on paper are abstract depictions of upbringing, rooted in the places that are part of one’s origin, identity, and belonging. The works demonstrate that one’s sense of belonging can be found both in the shelter beneath a bed and extend across mountain landscape.
Read an interview with Fatima Moallim about the performance work and her artistic practice here.
Fatima Moallim works with sculpture, performance, and installation, incorporating elements of drawing and sound. Her practice connects memories from the past with the sentiments of the present. Moallim often uses ballpoint pens, pencils, and oil pastels on paper or directly on the wall.
Moallim’s work has been exhibited at the Konstakademien (2024), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018, 2022), Göteborgs konsthall (2021), Marabouparken, Stockholm (2018), Zinkensdamms subway station in Stockholm (2020), and on the glass facade of Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm (2019). She is represented by the Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, and her work is part of collections including the British Museum, Moderna Museet, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Ståhl Collection, and Statens konstråd. Moallim was the 2022 Iaspis Studio Grant Holder ISCP, New York.
Magasin III Jaffa Books will host the artist Hagar Cygler to launch her new artist book- Don’t Take It to Heart.
The book interweaves the archival research of a residential building in Poland, as well as genealogical and visual research dealing with Cygler’s family history, tying together personal, national, historical, and political narratives. Browsing through the book allows multi-directional reading, from the inside, out and back again, but the browsing does not bring answers – photographs and documents keep folding into each other and refuse to give the full picture.
The book is bound by hand, made by cyanotype printing, in a limited edition.
For the event, Hagar Cygler will guide the activity of making and binding small books.
Magasin III Jaffa Books will host the artist Orly Maiberg to launch her new artist book.
The book includes a body of work from the last decade and provides an extensive view of Maiberg’s paintings during this period. These days, Miberg is presenting her exhibition ‘Nohow On, Again On’ at Ticho House, Israel Museum Jerusalem.
For the launch event, a print from a limited series of 25 prints will be offered for sale.
A conversation with the artist about the relation between creating a photograph and creating a dialog.
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz graduated from Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem, and the Continuing Education Unit in the Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He is a photography lecturer at Bezalel and at the Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv. Through photography and video, his works focus on the Israeli-Palestinian landscape and the interaction between man and landscape in a socio-political context. Ickowicz’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
A conversation with the artist and a painting workshop with putty on plywood.
Saher Miari acquired his BFA from the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College, and his MFA from the University of Haifa. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha, and initiates artistic projects in Arab communities in the north of Israel. Miari’s work focuses on issues that concern him as an artist-builder, such as home and masonry, construction and destruction, dismantling and assembly, wandering and migration, interior and exterior, as well as harsh working conditions referred to as “black labor.” His works reflect the identity and complexity of the Palestinian Arab society living in Israel, as well as his own identity. Through his art he expresses his worldview and criticizes the local reality, aspiring to change and build a new reality based on a stable and reliable foundation. Miari’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel.
A conversation with the artist and the artist Hillel Roman about the narrowed range of sight and control during a crisis, and a drawing workshop on carbon paper to expand imagination.
Shahar Yahalom received a BFA from the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College, and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. She is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha. Yahalom’s practice oscillates between sculpture and drawing, creating compositions that challenge the familiar hierarchical relationships between human, animal, plant, and object. Yahalom’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
Hillel Roman is an artist and a senior lecturer at the Midrasha, The Faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College. Roman graduated with a bachelor’s degree in literature from Tel Aviv University and has an MFA in visual arts from Goldsmiths College London. In his works, Roman deals with various aspects of the relationship between the political and the visual order, and focuses his work on large-scale charcoal drawings and participatory public installations. His works are in major collections, and he exhibited in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad, in major galleries and museums.